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Hello indie developers. 1 year ago we let our community know that the team behind IndieDB and ModDB are building mod.io, a cross-platform mod API for games. Since then 17 games have used mod.io to power over 4,600,000 mod installs for 700,000 players.

Today, we are happy to announce the launch of our Mod Browser and Manager for Unreal Engine 4, which makes it easy to support user generated content in your Unreal Engine 4 games. The plugin is highly adaptable, open-source, has powerful search, discovery and filtering support built in. It is platform and store agnostic allowing you to support modding in more places.

Features include:

• Platform agnostic, supporting 1 click mod installs on Steam, Epic Games, Discord, GOG, itch.io with plans for full-console support.
• Standalone, our API is not dependent on a client or SDK, allowing embedding everywhere: in-game, launcher, homepage, discord bot.
• User Management, allowing for synchronized subscriptions, mod rating, and content submission.
• C++ and Blueprint, interface built in the Unreal Engine for connecting to the mod.io API.
• Example Project, is available to help Unreal Engine developers get started.

To celebrate the launch, Victor from Epic Games invited us onto the Unreal Engine live stream, to discuss the plugin, how it works and what our objectives are. The VOD from the livestream and deck we presented are now available below.

MORDHAU a medieval combat simulation, and Playcraft a code-free multiplayer sandbox game builder (releasing this month) are the first two games to launch with mod support powered by the mod.io Unreal Engine plugin.

If you are interested in experimenting with mod support, we'd like to hear from you and invite you to download and start using our Unreal Engine 4 plugin. We look forward to enabling the creativity of your community, and extending the life and success of your game with mods.

In recent years we've partnered with the Gamer Network group, which includes Rock Paper Shotgun; Eurogamer.net and more, and share advertising across the network of sites. Each year, we now conduct a readership survey to better understand you and our community, so we can better serve you and to continue to adapt and grow with the trends of the industry.

If you have 10 minutes to fill out the survey to answer a few questions, the DBolical team would greatly appreciate it. It has been made shorter compared to previous years and we don't collect any personal information unless you want to during the survey.

We've got lots of exciting plans in the works for the sites in the coming weeks and months and hope your contributions to the survey can contribute to those plans and the direction we take the sites in.

Enjoy your weekends and you can always reach us at support@dbolical.com with any questions regarding the sites, or join us on Discord to chat with us and the rest of the community.

Hey there! I’m Seamus, the new Editor-in-Chief for ModDB and IndieDB and I couldn’t be more excited to be here with you. You’ve likely noticed me doing the headlines over the past month and popping up around the sites commenting on articles, but let me give you some more background about myself.

Over the past couple of years I’ve worked in the games industry covering and promoting games in a variety of ways. From writing about them for sites such as IGN, Gamespot, AusGamers and more, to promoting them for several publishers and helping build communities around games for developers. Although I’ve worked with studios big and small, I’ve always had a strong love and interest in indie games and the often unique stories behind their development.

At heart, I’m a writer and a sucker for details and research, who loves learning about and sharing games, stories about their talented creators and seeing others play and appreciate them as much as I do. To be able to do exactly that in my new role with DBolical and to work on such renowned sites such as ModDB and IndieDB is an incredible opportunity.

I’m looking forward to becoming more familiar with the sites, the communities that have grown around them over the years (and you of course!) in the coming months. I hope to help grow ModDB and IndieDB and to see them continue to be wonderful hubs for indie games and modding communities around the world. As well as a place for gamers to discover new, interesting indie experiences and reasons to return to favorite classics through mods.

Therefore, I’d love to hear what you think we could be doing better or differently across ModDB and IndieDB. I know INtense! has a lot of plans in the works and I’ve already been brainstorming a lot of ideas just in the past month, but we always want to be listening to you and ensuring the sites are continuing to evolve and change to suit how you use them.

Would you like us to continue the weekly mod and indie game round ups? Or is there a particular feature you really want us to implement? Perhaps you’d like to see more original content highlighting new mods and upcoming indie games more? Let us know, whether it’s in the comments here, through Facebook, Twitter, Discord or over email! You can always find us at support(at)dbolical.com and you can find me personally at seamus(at)dbolical.com

Of course we’re always looking to expand and grow ourselves as a company and to support the game development and modding communities in new ways. As part of my role with DBolical, I’m also a producer/scout for Modularity Games, a video game publishing label all about finding and helping games with modding capabilities succeed through funding and promotion. So be sure to hit us up at publishing(at)modularity.games if you are working on a game you’d think would be a good fit for the label.

We’ve got a lot of plans in the pipeline for Modularity Games that we can’t wait to share with you soon and for you to be a part of. While the team at our sister site mod.io is still hard at work creating the ultimate modding API cross platform service for game developers. So if you are working on a game with mods be sure to get in contact with the team at hello@mod.io to learn more about the service and how we can work together.

Again, I’m incredibly excited to join DBolical, to be the new Editor-in-Chief for ModDB and IndieDB and to be part of these fantastic communities that have grown over so many years. If you ever want to ask or question or chat you can message me right here on the sites, you find me on Twitter where I post regularly about indie games and mods, or email me at seamus(at)dbolical.com.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback and seeing you around the sites!

For this recurring segment, we will be highlighting the five biggest stories on ModDB for the prior week. Whether it's new mod announcements, major mod releases, or important stories that affect the mod scene as a whole, you'll find them rounded up here each week.

Mod Appreciation Week 2019 has come around! Now in its 5th consecutive year running, it’s time once again to share your favourite mods with your peers and show their creators how much you loved playing them!

The action takes place in the Black Mesa, on behalf of the usual security guard. You will again experience the horrors of the black mesa, but with a darker atmosphere and playing for another character. The world has become more cruel and gloomy. Here you will meet Mr. Friendly and many more creatures on the way to the exit from the Black Mesa.

WEDNESDAY

RELEASE: Morrowind Rebirth 5.0

For: Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Explore the island of Vvardenfell as you never have before, with a world built anew to be both alien and familiar to the Morrowind you knew before. New adventures await, with new exciting areas to see and explore, and new artifacts just waiting to be discovered. This is a complete overhaul for Morrowind, adding countless new details, weapons, armors and much more for you to see and do. Experience the world of Morrowind in a new light, try out Morrowind Rebirth today!

A xp/rank/reward/mobility modification with visual/sound/text notifications. Custom "Doom Exp Settings" menu, Improved Sounds & effects and More Gore! All new 🐕 Dog Companion 🐶 has been added. Some bug fixes and balancing updates have also been dealt with.

Monthly dev update for King under the Mountain - a simulation-based strategy game inspired by Dwarf Fortress, The Settlers and Prison Architect. This month with an overview of how mods actually work!

Mod Appreciation Week 2019 has come around! Now in its 5th consecutive year running, it’s time once again to share your favourite mods with your peers and show their creators how much you loved playing them! Given how much volunteer time goes into every mod’s creation, we know these hard-working modders would love nothing more than to hear how much you appreciated their work. All you need to do is make the effort to shout out your favourite mods, whether they’re hosted on ModDB or otherwise. Tweet them, blog about them, post on forums or Facebook, all with the hashtag:

#modlove2019

All mod profiles will now show the Mod Appreciation Week banner. Just click any of the links provided, and tweet, post, or share the link to the mod’s profile to show your appreciation for it. You can also follow these steps:

1. It doesn't matter where your favorite mod is hosted be it on Run Shoot Think Live, GameBanana, Curse, Steam Workshop, Nexus or Mod DB.
2. Copy its URL then write a post explaining why you like that mod (you could write this post on your blog, in a forum, a tweet or Facebook post); the more we share, the better!
3. Tell us about your post by linking to it in the comments here. We want to share in your appreciation.
4. At the end of the week we shall be picking a few lucky members who left a comment following these rules at random, and giving them a key to one of the games listed below as thanks for helping us celebrate mods!

We have partnered up with some friends of ModDB (want in?) - developers whose games have always been mod-friendly and deserve our love for supporting the mod scene, and will be giving them away to participants. We've got a handful of keys for the games listed below - just follow the steps above to be eligible to win! Game developers, do you share our passion for mods and want to giveback? Get in touch and we will add your game to our #modlove collection. We promise to promote your game whenever we run an event like this, by giving away a handful of keys each time to the participants.

Win games

After you have linked to a mod in a tweet, blog, forum or facebook post, let us know by leaving a comment with a link to your post. At the end of the week we shall be picking a few members at random who followed these rules, and will send them a key from one of the above games.